Poul Ruders : Dancer in the Dark
05P, 07, 09, 11, 13, 19, 22, 25, 27 Sep 2010
Libretto: Henrik Engelbrecht, after Lars von Trier's eponymous film
Conductor Michael Schønwandt
Producer Kasper Bech Holten
Sets Christian Lemmerz
Costumes Maria Gyllenhoff
Lighting Jesper Kongshaug

Selma Jezková Ylva Kihlberg
Bill Houston Palle Knudsen
Kathy Hanne Fischer
District Attorney/Guard 2 Gert Henning-Jensen
Brenda Ulla Kudsk Jensen / Johanne Bock
Norman /Guard 1 Guido Paevatalu
World premiere

Berg: WOZZECK - Falk Struckmann, Katarina Dalayman, Wolfgang Neumann, Graham Clark, Michael Devlin, John Horton Murray, Wendy White, James Courtney, Ronald Naldi, Anthony Laciura, David Frye, Meredith Derr, Benjamin Pakman, Robert Morrison; Mark Lamos; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 2001 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Corigliano: THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES - Teresa Stratas, Marilyn Horne, Graham Clark, Gino Quilico, Hakan Hagegard, Judith Christin, Peter Kazaras, Renée Fleming, Tracy Dahl, Neil Rosenshein, Wilbur Pauley, Stella Zambalis, Ara Berberian, Philip Cokorinos, Dean Badolato, Midhat Serbagi, Jane Shaulis, James Courtney, Richard Drews, Wendy Hoffman, Betsy Norden, Kitt Reuter-Foss; Colin Graham; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1992 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Mozart: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - Ruggero Raimondi, Kathleen Battle, Thomas Allen, Carol Vaness, Frederica von Stade, Artur Korn, Jocelyne Taillon, Michel Sénéchal, Dawn Upshaw, James Courtney, Anthony Laciura; Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1985 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Puccini: IL TRITTICO - Renata Scotto, Vasile Moldoveanu, Cornell MacNeil, Bianca Berini, Italo Tajo, Charles Anthony, Jeffrey Stamm, Michael Best, Louise Wohlafka, Jocelyne Taillon, Betsy Norden, Linore Aronson, Ann Florio, Gwynn Cornell, Jean Kraft, Batyah Godfrey Ben-David, Claudia Catania, Elyssa Lindner, Janet Wagner, Linda Mays, Barbara Bystrom, Loretta Di Franco, Elena Doria, Gabriel Bacquier, Philip Creech, Ariel Bybee, Russell Christopher, James Courtney, Dana Watkins, Ara Berberian, Andrij Dobriansky, Herman Marcus, Peter Sliker, Alfred Slesinger; Fabrizio Melano; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1981 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Smetana: THE BARTERED BRIDE - Teresa Stratas, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Martii Talvela, Elizabeth Coss, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Jean Kraft, John Cheek, Alan Crofoot, Colette Boky, Andrij Dobriansky; John Dexter; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1978 [Sung in English] [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Strauss, R. : ELEKTRA - Hildegard Behrens, Deborah Voigt, Brigitte Fassbaender, Judith Goldberg, Jean Rawn, Philip Creech, Richard Vernon, Donald McIntyre, Herbert Perry, James King, Janet Hopkins, Ellen Rabiner, Kaaren Erickson, Jane Shaulis, Elizabeth Byrne, Theresa Cincione; Otto Schenk; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1994 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Strauss, R. : DER ROSENKAVALIER - Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Judith Blegen, Kurt Moll, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Barbara Conrad, Joseph Franks, Luciano Pavarotti, Elizabeth Coss, Shawn Lamont Robertson, Nico Castel, Judith Goldberg, Joyce Olson, Janet Wagner, Lorraine Keane, Linda Mays, John Hanriot, Sam Cardea, James Courtney, Erbert Aldridge, Arthur Apy, Robert Manno, Fawayne Murphy, Sven Leaf; Nathaniel Merrill; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1982 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Verdi: DON CARLO - Vasile Moldoveanu, Renata Scotto, Sherill Milnes, Tatiana Troyanos, Paul Plishka, Jerome Hines, Therese Brandson, John Cheek, Betsy Norden, Peter Sliker, Dana Talley, Timothy Jenkins; John Dexter; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1980 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

Weill: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY - Teresa Stratas, Richard Cassilly, Astrid Varnay, Cornell MacNeill, Ragnar Ulfung, Arturo Sergi, Vern Shinall, Paul Plishka, Michael Best, Klara Barlow, Nedda Casei, Gwynn Cornell, Joann Grillo, Isola Jones, Loiuse Wohlafka, Nico Castel; John Dexter; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1979 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 years at the Met box set]

The 11 historic performances on the 32-CD set range from early 1980s innovations like the Parade triple-bill (including Satie’s ballet Parade, and the operas Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Poulenc and L’Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel) to the world premiere of John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby from 2000.

Berg: Lulu
Christine Schäfer, Hanna Schwarz, David Kuebler, Clifton Forbis, James Courtney; April 21, 2001

Berg: Wozzeck
José van Dam, Anja Silja, Ragnar Ulfung, Richard Cassilly, Dieter Weller; March 8, 1980

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Marcello Giordani, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Kristine Jepson, Peter Coleman-Wright, John Del Carlo, Robert Lloyd; December 27, 2003

Berlioz: Les Troyens
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Deborah Voigt, Ben Heppner, Dwayne Croft, Robert Lloyd; February 22, 2003

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Jeannette Pilou, Dale Duesing, Jocelyne Taillon, José van Dam, Jerome Hines; January 22, 1983

Harbison: The Great Gatsby
Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Dwayne Croft, Susan Graham, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mark Baker; January 1, 2000

Parade (triple bill)—Satie: Parade / Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias / Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
Ainhoa Arteta, Danielle de Niese, Earle Patriarco, Ruth Ann Swenson, Wendy White; March 16, 2002

Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
Philip Langridge, John Tomlinson; February 20, 1999

Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
Dawn Upshaw, Paul Groves, Samuel Ramey, Stephanie Blythe; April 19, 2003

Stravinsky (triple bill)—Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Le Rossignol / Oedipus Rex
William Lewis, Florence Quivar, Franz Mazura, Gianna Rolandi, Philip Creech; February 25, 1984

Wagner: Lohengrin
Ben Heppner, Deborah Voigt, Deborah Polaski, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Eric Halfvarson; March 21, 1998